Programs for You.
FACES.
FACES strengthens connections between home and school. This nine-week series of workshops takes place in schools and involves principals. It empowers and inspires parents to take an active role in encouraging and enabling their children to stay in school, improve their academic performance, develop healthy and constructive relationships with their parents, teachers, and counselors, and focus/prepare themselves for a post-secondary education. FACES is a licensed provider of the evidence-based Parent Institute for Quality Education(PIQE) and is proven to improve retention, academic performance, and home/school connections.
Offered at High School of Commerce, Duggan Academy, and Impact Middle School.
Early College.
The dual enrollment program is a secondary/post-secondary partnership involving Worcester State University (WSU) and area high schools. This program enables high school students to participate in college and career readiness activities and free college credit course offerings. The activities and courses are offered at the high school, online, or on the WSU campuses. Students earn college and high school credits at the same time and can graduate from high school with a high school diploma and at least 12 college credits. Students are supported throughout the experience through mentors, learning coaches and faculty.
Offered at High School of Commerce and RISE Academy.
Math Intervention.
Math students at High School of Commerce (HSC) are co-taught by a bilingual math intervention specialist. In addition, this specialist meets with students outside of class time to support Math skills in the classroom. Program Curriculum: Tutoring sessions for students that are preparing for MCAS Exam. The curriculum is aligned with the SPS curriculum framework.
Offered at High School of Commerce.
Math Intervention versus Covid-19.
Students at High School of Commerce interacting with their Latino Education Institute professors in their first virtual experience on their Math Intervention session.
Click to watch video (in Spanish).
My Voice, My Community.
Youth will explore identity and geography, cultural identity, and assimilation through Reader’s Theatre and PhotoVoice in partnership with the Springfield Public Library, College Photography Department, theatre professionals, and college student volunteers. Interviews, Writing, Community walks to capture cultural geography will take place throughout the community. Community Release/Exhibit of the photographs and narratives and a simple publication of the work of the students from the scholar’s perspective about the project. Exhibit will take place at the Springfield City Library.
Offered at South and Middle School.
Reader’s theater.
In the first module, middle school students will read and work with a theatre professional to develop a Reader’s Theatre of When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago, a coming-of-age story that follows the young author from her childhood in rural Puerto Rico to adolescence in New York City. They will read a script adapted from this book and develop a presentation where the audience pictures the action from hearing the excerpts read aloud. It requires no sets, costumes, or memorized lines. This module will culminate in a community presentation at the Springfield Public Library.
Offered at South and Middle School.
Photovoice.
In the second module, the project builds on themes from the book to develop guiding questions for PhotoVoice, a participatory action research activity where participants identify, represent and enhance their community through photographic techniques and accompanying narratives. Student’s understanding will increase through their experiences on cultural geography of Puerto Ricans in Springfield through photographic forms of expression such as signs & symbols, building types or street scenes that distinguish the Puerto Rican neighborhoods from the others in the city. Participants will engage residents in simple interview questions and will culminate with a public exhibit and a published report of the work.
Offered at South and Middle School, Duggan Academy, and Kennedy Middle School.
STEM College Fair.
The need for STEM graduates particularly impacts Massachusetts because more than 40 percent of all employment in the Commonwealth revolves around innovation industries such as clean energy, information technology, defense, and advanced manufacturing, according to the Massachusetts’ Plan for Excellence in STEM Education. Our annual STEM Expo is an opportunity for Latino families to engage in STEM activities and explore career pathways in this industry.
Offered at South and Middle School, and Duggan Academy.
Family Academy.
Atrevete! Latino Family Workshops are held in collaboration with College Board, and Worcester State University to enable Latino middle-school and high-school students to attend presentations by experts in the areas of:
Financial aid
Advanced placement courses
College access
Preparing for college
Families have the opportunity to learn about the many free resources in the local community and online that are available to first-generation college students.
Offered at South and Middle School, and Duggan Academy.